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Exercising-Machine.

No. 225,736. Patented Mar. 23, 1880 PE ERS. FHQTO-LITNOGPAPHERWASHINGTON. a C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD A. TUTTLE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

EXERCISING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,736, dated March23, 1880. Application filed September a, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD A. TU'r'rLE, ofNew York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new andImproved Exercising-Machine, which is fully described in the annexedspecification.

My invention consists of a contrivance of lovers and handles with theplatform, whereby the elevation of the person of the operator may beeffected by pushing downward on the handles, the object being to affordexercise to the muscles not brought into action by the common liftingprocess; and it also consists of apparatus for this method of exerciseand the ordinary lifting apparatus, combined with one and the sameplatform, thereby afi'ording both methods of exercise in one machine.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved exercising-machine. Fig. 2isa plan view.

A is the platform, which is pivoted at B to a pair of levers, G, whichhave their fulcrums at D in standards E of the base F, with which arethe usual parallel bars K, to keep the plat-- form level, and at theopposite side of pivots B levers G are provided with a pair ofliftinghandles, G, in about the same arrangement as exercising -machinesnow in use for lifting oneself while standing on the platform at 0, saidhandles being adjustable along the slotted portions H of the levers tovary the leverage.

To the machine thus constructed 1 make the extensions I of the levers 0beyond the fulcrums D-that is, opposite to the pivots B and handlesG-and attach to said extensions the pushing-handles J, the same beinglocated suitably for the convenient use of the operator, when on thatend of the platform at P, to elevate it with himself thereon by pushingdownward on said handles and in order to secure these handles in anupright position, to prevent them from turning out of line, as theywould if pivoted to a single lever, I have arranged the extensions Q ofthe bars K parallel with extensions I of levers O, and coupled the lowerportions, L, of said handles to both of said extensions, which maintainsthe handles in vertical lines with sufficient rigidity while the leversswing up and down. To shift them along the levers they are pivoted tothe slides M, fitted in the slots of the levers and provided withclamp-screws N, to set them at any point. The bars K are pivoted tostandards E, like the main levers G, and to brackets It, projecting fromthe platform.

Thus I provide a machine whereon one can raise himself either by liftingor pushing downward, and exercise two diiferent sets of muscles, withbut little more expense than of a machine for either purpose alone, andtwo persons can exercise on this machine at once.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. In an exercisingmachine, the pushinghandles J, coupled with thelevers O on that side of the fulcrum opposite the pivotal connectionswith the platform, whereby the operator is enabled to raise saidplatform, on which he stands, by simply pushing down on the handles, asdescribed.

2. The parallel bars K, extended beyond the fulcrums, along the levers OI, to the pushinghandles, and said handles connected to them and to thelevers U I, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with the platform A, levers C I, and the parallelbars K, of liftingha-ndles G on one side of the fulcrum D, andpushing-handles J on the opposite side, substantially as described.

EDWARD A. TUTTLE.

Witnesses W. J. MORGAN, F. A. THAYER.

